Bethesda Softworks has registered Fallout with the US Patent and Trademark Office, copyrighting the title for film and television.

The Elder Scrolls publisher has held the rights to the series since purchasing them from Interplay in 2007.

News of possible screen adaptations were leaked when the Fallout name appared on the Patent Office's website under "entertainment services in the nature of an ongoing television program", and "motion picture films about a post-nuclear apocalyptic world."

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In addition to these possible cinematic spin-offs, Bethesda has sanctioned the development of an MMO based around the Fallout universe.